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" The newest books are those that never grow old. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
Those
Books
Grow
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" Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. "
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" The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. "
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" A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. "
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" Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. "
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" Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. "
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" The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. "
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" The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. "
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" There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. "
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" The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. "
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" Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. "
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People
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" A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. "
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Mediocre
Tomb
" Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. "
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" Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. "
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Discover
Who
Soon
" There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. "
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More
Men
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" We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. "
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Complain
Funny
" Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. "
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Like
Vanity
" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "
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Great
Wisdom
Man
" If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. "
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Thought
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" To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. "
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Rich
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Day
" What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? "
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Away
Joy
" What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? "
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Feel
Want
" People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. "
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Life
People
Feel
" The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. "
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Good Work
Money
Work
" We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. "
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Conscience
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More
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Cracks
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